Method of neighborhood watch implemented in-part with electronic surveillance system
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1. A method of regional surveillance comprising:
- assigning each member of a plurality of local surveillance systems an identification tag specifying a selected neighborhood;
providing a common control system with which each of the surveillance systems can communicate;
providing wireless communications between the members of the plurality and the common control system;
detecting an incident at one of the members of the plurality, and, transmitting an incident indicating message to the common control system along with the respective identification tag;
evaluating the message at the control system; and
responsive to the evaluating, broadcasting an incident specifying report to a predetermined group of recipients.
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Abstract
A regional surveillance system includes a plurality of local geo-tagged surveillance systems each of which is associated with a predetermined virtual neighborhood. The surveillance systems wirelessly communicate alarm or incident indicating messages, along with neighborhood defining indicia to a common control unit. The common control unit evaluates the incoming messages, and responsive to predetermined criteria, determines which members of a plurality of subscribers should be notified by an alarm or incident indicating message. Once the appropriate subscribers receive the message(s) then a determination can be made as to which, if any, non-subscribers should be notified.
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1. A method of regional surveillance comprising:
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assigning each member of a plurality of local surveillance systems an identification tag specifying a selected neighborhood; providing a common control system with which each of the surveillance systems can communicate; providing wireless communications between the members of the plurality and the common control system; detecting an incident at one of the members of the plurality, and, transmitting an incident indicating message to the common control system along with the respective identification tag; evaluating the message at the control system; and responsive to the evaluating, broadcasting an incident specifying report to a predetermined group of recipients. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A regional surveillance system comprising:
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a plurality of local surveillance systems, wherein each of the local systems is geo tagged as part of a predetermined neighborhood; a common network control center which is in wireless communication with members of the plurality, the common center includes at least one programmable processor and associated, pre-stored, control software which, when the processor executes the control software, can evaluate incoming messages from members of the plurality in accordance with pre-stored criteria, where the incoming messages include the geo-tags of the members of the plurality, and where the common center includes pre-stored identifiers of members of a plurality of subscribers, associated with the neighborhood; and a wireless communication system linking the surveillance systems to the common center, and the common center to at least the subscribers; and where the common control center includes circuitry to broadcast to at least some of the members of the plurality of subscribers, incident specifying reports responsive to the evaluated messages. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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